fftw3: License and Copyright
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FFTW is Copyright (C) 2003, 2007-11 Matteo Frigo, Copyright (C) 2003,
2007-11 Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
FFTW is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free
Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General
Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA You can
also find the GPL on the GNU web site
(http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html).
In addition, we kindly ask you to acknowledge FFTW and its authors in
any program or publication in which you use FFTW. (You are not
_required_ to do so; it is up to your common sense to decide whether you
want to comply with this request or not.) For general publications, we
suggest referencing: Matteo Frigo and Steven G. Johnson, "The design and
implementation of FFTW3," Proc. IEEE 93 (2), 216-231 (2005).
Non-free versions of FFTW are available under terms different from
those of the General Public License. (e.g. they do not require you to
accompany any object code using FFTW with the corresponding source
code.) For these alternative terms you must purchase a license from
MIT's Technology Licensing Office. Users interested in such a license
should contact us (<fftw@fftw.org>) for more information.